FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command issued the following news: Fairchild Air Force Base aircrew members from the 97th, 93rd and 384th Air Refueling Squadrons conducted an air refueling training mission with Oregon Air National Guard 142nd Fighter Wing F-15C Eagles Nov. 23 over Oregon. Fairchild AFB conducted the training with the Oregon ANG to meet air refueling training requirements for both units en route to completing oceanic training over Hawai  more

FAIRCHILD AIR FORCE BASE, Washington, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: Fairchild Air Force Base aircrew members from the 97th, 93rd and 384th Air Refueling Squadrons conducted an air refueling training mission with Oregon Air National Guard 142nd Fighter Wing F-15C Eagles Nov. 23 over Oregon. Fairchild AFB conducted the training with the Oregon ANG to meet air refueling training requirements for both units en route to completing oceanic training over Hawaii. "Even thoug  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida issued the following news release: * * * - Federal, State, and International Law Enforcement Join Forces Against Transnational Schemes * * * Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners today announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly, and for  more

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Pacific Air Forces issued the following news: U.S. and partner Airmen in Guam are set to participate in the Department of Defense's longest running humanitarian mission beginning Dec. 10. Operation Christmas Drop is an annual U.S. Air Force tradition of packaging and delivering food, tools and clothing to more than 56 remote islands in the South-Eastern Pacific, including the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of the Attorney General issued the following news release: * * * - Federal, State, and International Law Enforcement Join Forces Against Transnational Schemes * * * Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners today announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly, and forwardi  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service Pacific Islands Area office issued the following news release: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Pacific Islands Area Director, Travis Thomason, announces the selection of Alex Beaton and Alyssa Fujii to serve as Soil Conservationists in the NRCS Waimea Field Office on the Big Island. Thomason said, "Alyssa and Alex are skilled and committed conservationists. The local knowledge   more

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, Dec. 6 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following story: Two Department of Defense civilians died following a shooting at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam on Dec. 4. The shooter, a Navy Sailor assigned to USS Columbia (SSN 771), died from self-inflicted gunshot wound. The civilians have been identified: - Vincent J. Kapoi of Hawaii, Metals Inspector Apprentice, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. - Roldan A. Agustin of Hawaii, Shop  more

TULSA, Oklahoma, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma, Trent Shores, issued the following news release: * * * - Federal, State, and International Law Enforcement Join Forces Against Transnational Schemes * * * Attorney General William P. Barr and law enforcement partners today announced a concentrated effort across the country and around the world to halt money mule activity. Money mules assist fraud schemes by receiving money from victims, many of them elderly,   more

HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release: The public is reminded that Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, along with other national parks across America, will modify its entrance fees to provide additional funding for infrastructure and maintenance needs to enhance the visitor experience. Effective January 1, 2020, the entrance fees to the park will be $30 per vehicle, $25 per motorcycle and $15 per pedest  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following story: Our entire Navy and Marine Corps team is struck and deeply saddened by the attacks within our own naval family over the past several days, at Little Creek, Virginia, last week, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Wednesday, and today in Pensacola, Florida. These acts are crimes against all of us. Our prayers are with the families of the fallen and with the wounded. It is our solemn duty to find the causes of such tragic loss and ceaselessly   more

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, California, Dec. 4 -- The U.S. Air Force (30th Space Wing) issued the following news: Ocean Ave. and the AMTRAC railway separate Fire Station 5 from 2,553 nautical miles of Pacific Ocean before reaching Hawaii. In the face of this great expanse, and with 43 miles of coastline belonging to the base, the need for an atypical set of training has continually evolved since its inception. The 30th Civil Engineer Squadron Fire Department innovated new ways for their first r  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Dec. 3 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized an administrative order with Charles Miguel Sr., a property owner, over the unpermitted construction of a diversion channel in Southeast Molokai, Hawaii. Under the terms of the order, Mr. Miguel has agreed to submit and implement a mitigation plan that will remove the diversion channel and restore the quarter acre of wetlands impacted by  more